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ENACTED   BY  THE   LEGISLATURE 
OF  1915 


PUBLISHED  BY  AUTHORITY 

MRS.  JOSEPHINE  CORLISS  PRESTON 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
OLYMPIA 


1915 


OLYMPIA 
FRANK    M.    LAMBORN   ugg^^    PUBLIC    PRINTER. 

1915 


STATE  OF  WASHINGTON— DEPARTMENT  OF 
EDUCATION. 

OFFICE  OF  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION, 
OLYMPIA. 

For  the  benefit  of  school  officers  I  have  compiled  the  school 
laws  enacted  at  the  last  session  of  the  legislature.  This  pam- 
phlet should  be  used  in  connection  with  the  1913  Code  of  Public 
Instruction.  After  amendatory  acts,  annotations  have  been 
made  referring  to  the  numbers  of  sections  in  the  1913  Code  of 
Public  Instruction  which  have  been  affected  by  the  new  act. 

MRS.  JOSEPHINE  CORLISS  PRESTON, 

Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 
August  15,  1915. 


COINTEINTS 


Page 

Powers  and  duties  of  directors,  establishment  of  night  schools....  5 

Transfers  of  territory 7 

Creation  of  university  building  fund,  tuition  fees 9 

Display  of  flag,  flag  salute 12 

County  auditors  to  issue  warrants  for  second  and  third  class 

districts 12 

Schoolhouses  and  sites  in  second  class  districts 13 

Dates  of  school  elections 14 

Authorizing  state  college  to  co-operate  in  extension  work 15 

Making  school  districts  subject  to  garnishment 16 

Creating  commission  for  educational  survey 16 

Relating  to  accrediting  of  institutions 18 

Dates   of   teachers'    examinations 19 

Formation,   etc.,   of  consolidated   districts 20 

Commission  on  financial  management  of  public  schools 22 


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CHAPTER  44. 

[H.  B.  113.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  the  powers  and  duties  of  school  directors  and 
amending  section  4481  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes 
and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4481  of  Rem.  &  Bal.  Code  be 
amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  4481.  Every  board  of  directors,  unless  otherwise 
specially  provided  by  law,  shall  have  power  and  it  shall  be  its 
duty: 

First.  To  employ,  for  not  more  than  one  year,  and  for  suf- 
ficient cause  to  discharge,  teachers,  and  to  fix,  alter,  allow  and 
order  paid  their  salaries  and  compensation.  The  directors,  ex- 
cept in  districts  of  the  first  class,  shall  make  with  each  teacher 
employed  by  them  a  written  or  printed  contract,  which  shall  be 
in  conformity  with  the  laws  of  this  state,  and  every  such  contract 
shall  be  made  in  duplicate,  one  copy  of  which  shall  be  retained 
by  the  school  district  clerk  and  the  other  shall  be  delivered  to 
the  teacher  after  having  been  approved  and  registered  by  the 
county  superintendent  as  by  law  required. 

Second.  To  enforce  the  rules  and  regulations  prescribed 
by  the  superintendent  of  public  instruction  and  state  board  of 
education  for  the  government  of  schools,  pupils  and  teachers, 
and  to  enforce  the  course  of  study  lawfully  prescribed  for  the 
schools  of  their  district. 

Third.  To  rent,  repair,  furnish  and  insure  school  houses, 
to  employ  janitors,  laborers  and  mechanics. 

Fourth.  To  cause  all  school  houses  to  be  properly  heated, 
lighted  and  ventilated,  and  to  cause  all  school  premises  to  be 
maintained  in  a  cleanly  and  sanitary  condition. 

Fifth.  To  purchase  personal  property  in  the  name  of  the 
district  and  to  receive,  lease  and  hold  for  their  district  any  real 
or  personal  property. 


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Sixth.  To  suspend  or  expel  pupils  from  school  who  refuse 
to  obey  the  rules  thereof,  and  they  shall  exclude  from  school  all 
children  under  six  years  of  age. 

Seventh.  To  provide  free  text-books  and  supplies  to  be 
loaned  to  the  pupils  of  the  school,  when  in  their  judgment  the 
best  interests  of  their  district  will  be  subserved  thereby,  and  to 
prescribe  such  rules  and  regulations  as  they  shall  deem  necessary 
to  preserve  such  books  and  supplies  from  unnecessary  damage. 

Eighth.  To  require  all  pupils  to  be  furnished  with  such 
books  as  may  have  been  adopted  by  the  lawful  authority  of  this 
state,  as  a  condition  to  membership  in  the  schools. 

Ninth.  To  exclude  from  schools  and  school  libraries  all 
books,  tracts,  papers  and  other  publications  of  an  immoral  or 
pernicious  tendency. 

Tenth.  To  authorize  the  school  room  to  be  used  for  summer 
or  night  schools,  or  for  public,  literary,  scientific,  religious,  po- 
litical, mechanical  and  agricultural  meetings,  under  such  regula- 
tions as  the  board  of  directors  may  adopt. 

Eleventh.  To  provide  and  pay  for  transportation  of  chil- 
dren to  and  from  school  when  in  their  judgment  the  best  interests 
of  their  district  will  be  subserved  thereby,  but,  in  case  trans- 
portation is  provided,  the  directors  shall  not  be  compelled  to 
transport  children  who  live  within  two  miles  of  the  school  house. 

Twelfth.    To  establish  and  maintain  night  schools. 

Passed  the  House  March  1,  1915. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  4,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  8,  1915. 

This  act  amends  Section  163  of  the  Code  of  Public  Instruction. 
The  only  change  is  the  addition  of  the  twelfth  paragraph. 


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CHAPTER  50. 

[S.   B.   39.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  the  transfer  of  territory  from  one  school  district 
to  another  and  amending  section  4433  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's 
Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4433  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's 
Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington  be  amended  to 
read  as  follows : 

Section  4433.  For  the  purpose  of  transferring  territory 
from  one  district  to  another  or  enlarging  the  boundaries  of  any 
school  district,  a  petition  in  writing  shall  be  presented  to  the 
county  superintendent,  signed  by  a  majority  of  heads  of  fam- 
ilies residing  in  the  territory  which  it  is  proposed  to  transfer 
or  include,  or  in  case  there  be  no  family  resident  in  such  terri- 
tory then  by  the  board  of  directors  in  one  of  the  districts 
affected  by  such  proposed  change,  which  petition  shall  describe 
the  change  which  it  is  proposed  to  have  made.  It  shall  also 
state  the  reason  for  desiring  said  change,  and  the  number  of 
children  of  school  age  if  any  residing  in  the  territory  to  be 
transferred.  For  such  proposed  transfer  of  territory  the 
notices  shall  be  posted  and  the  hearing  and  appeal  shall  be 
the  same  as  for  the  formation  of  a  new  district:  Provided,  That 
whenever  any  part  of  a  school  district  of  the  third  class  in  which 
no  high  school  is  maintained  is  bounded  on  three  sides  by  a 
school  district  of  the  second  class  in  which  a  high  school  is 
situated  and  maintained,  the  county  superintendent  of  schools 
may  without  petition,  transfer  the  territory  of  the  school  district 
of  the  third  class  so  bounded  to  the  school  district  of  the  second 
class  in  which  said  high  school  is  situated  and  maintained: 
Provided,  That  the  county  superintendent  of  schools,  shall  hold 
a  hearing  upon  the  advisability  of  said  transfer,  and  shall  give 
notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  said  hearing  to  the  parties  in- 
terested, by  causing  notices  to  be  posted  at  least  twenty  (20) 
days  prior  to  the  time  appointed  by  him  for  said  hearing,  in 
at  least  three  of  the  most  public  places  in  the  territory  proposed 


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to  be  transferred,  and  one  on  the  school  house  door  of  each 
district  affected  by  the  proposed  change.  On  the  day,  and  at 
the  place  fixed  in  the  notice,  he  shall  hold  said  hearing,  and  if 
he  deem  it  advisable  to  make  such  transfer,  he  shall  make  an 
order  establishing  said  transfer,  and  shall  certify  his  action 
to  the  board  of  county  commissioners  at  their  next  regular 
meeting.  Upon  making  such  transfer  of  territory  the  county 
superintendent  of  schools  shall  fix  a  time  and  place  for  adjusting 
the  assets  and  liabilities  of  the  school  districts  affected,  and 
shall  give  notice  thereof  by  posting  said  notice  at  least  twenty 
days  prior  to  the  appointed  time  in  not  less  than  three  of  the 
most  public  places  in  the  district  from  which  the  territory  was 
transferred  (at  least  one  of  which  shall  be  in  the  territory 
transferred),  and  a  like  number  in  the  district  to  which  the 
territory  is  transferred.  At  the  time  and  place  fixed  he  shall 
hear  the  testimony  offered  by  any  interested  party  or  district, 
and  make  an  equitable  adjustment  of  all  property,  debts  and 
liabilities  among  the  districts  affected  in  the  same  manner  and 
to  the  same  effect  as  is  provided  in  section  4434  of  Remington 
&  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Passed  the  Senate  February  15,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  February  24,  1915. 

NOTE  BY  SECRETARY  OF  STATE. 

The  above  act  filed  in  the  office  of  the  secretary  of  state,  March  9, 
1915,  and  allowed  to  become  a  law  without  the  approval  of  the  Governor. 

I.  M.  HOWELL,  Secretary  of  State. 


This  act  amends  Section  114  of  the  Code  of  Public  Instruction. 

This  act  provides  that  whenever  any  part  of  a  third  class  district  which 
has  no  high  school,  is  bounded  on  three  sides  by  a  second  class  district  having 
a  high  school,  the  county  superintendent  may  transfer  the  territory  of  the  third 
class  district  so  bounded  to  the  second  without  a  petition. 


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CHAPTER  66. 

[S.  B.  310.] 

AN  ACT  for  the  support  of  the  University  of  Washington  and  relating 
to  the  erection  and  equipment  of  two  buildings  at  the  university, 
making  appropriations  therefor  and  providing  a  system  of  student 
fees  and  creating  a  building  fund. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  There  is  hereby  created  in  the  state  treasury 
a  fund  which  shall  he  known  and  designated  as  the  "University 
of  Washington  Building  Fund." 

SEC.  2.  The  University  of  Washington  shall  charge  to  and 
collect  from  each  of  the  students  matriculating  and  registering 
therein,  the  following  fees  : 

(a)  A  matriculation  fee  of  ten  dollars. 

(b)  A  tuition  fee  of  ten  dollars  per  semester. 

(c)  A  tuition  fee  of  ten  dollars  for  Summer  Session,  Short 
Course  and  Marine  Station  students.    The  students  mentioned  in 
this  subdivision  shall  not  be  charged  for  such  work  any  fees 
mentioned  in  subdivisions  (a)  and  (b)  of  this  section,  but  may 
in  proper  cases,  be  charged  the  fees  mentioned  in  subdivisions 
(d)  and  (e)  ;  but  upon  subsequent  matriculation  and  registra- 
tion  for   regular   semester   work   such   students   must   pay   the 
matriculation  fee  and  also  such  fees  as  are  required  for  the  work 
for  which  they  register. 

(d)  An  additional  tuition  fee  of  twelve  and   one-half  dol- 
lars per  semester  for  law,  for  the  law  library. 

(e)  Student  deposit,  disciplinary  and  special  or  individual 
instruction  fees  and  fees  for  extension  work  and  fees  for  night 
work,   shall  be   as   determined  by  the  board   of  regents.      The 
board   of   regents    is   hereby   empowered   to   return   unused    or 
unearned  portions  of  the  fees  collected  under  the  terms  of  this 
subdivision. 

SEC.  3.  All  fees  mentioned  in  subdivision  (a)  of  section 
two  of  this  act  shall  be  paid  into  the  state  treasury  within  five 
days  from  the  collection  thereof,  and  all  fees  mentioned  in  sub- 
division (b)  of  said  section  except  such  as  shall  be  returned 


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as  provided  in  section  five  of  this  act  shall  be  paid  into  the  state 
treasury  within  sixty-five  days  from  the  collection  thereof,  and 
by  the  state  treasurer  shall  be  credited  to  the  "University  of 
Washington  Building  Fund,"  to  be  used  exclusively  for  the 
purpose  of  erecting,  maintaining,  equipping  and  furnishing  new 
buildings,  and  altering,  repairing,  equipping  and  furnishing 
existing  buildings  for  the  University  of  Washington. 

SEC.  4.  All  fees  paid  in  accordance  with  subdivisions  (c), 
(d)  and  (e)  of  said  section  two  shall  be  held  by  the  board  of 
regents  as  a  revolving  fund  and  expended  by  it  for  the  purposes 
for  which  collected  and  be  accounted  for  in  accordance  with 
existing  law. 

SEC.  5.  Fees  paid  in  accordance  with  subdivision  (a)  of 
section  two  of  this  act  are  not  returnable  to  the  student  in  whole 
or  in  part.  Fees  paid  in  accordance  with  subdivision  (b)  of 
said  section  two  are  not  returnable  except  in  case  of  sickness 
or  causes  entirely  beyond  the  control  of  the  student.  No  por- 
tion of  the  fees  shall  be  returned  for  voluntary  or  enforced  with- 
drawal after  sixty  days  from  the  date  of  registration  of  the 
student.  Students  withdrawing  under  discipline  forfeit  all 
rights  to  the  return  of  any  portion  of  the  fees.  In  no  case  shall 
more  than  one-half  of  the  fee  be  refunded. 

SEC.  6.  The  board  of  regents  may  appoint  to  free  scholar- 
ships those  deserving  students  who  after  a  semester  in  residence 
have  shown  a  marked  capacity  for  the  work  done  by  them  in 
school.  The  number  of  free  scholarships  shall  not  in  any 
semester  exceed  ten  per  centum  of  the  attendance.  The  appoint- 
ment of  a  free  scholarship  shall  release  the  student  appointed 
from  the  payment  of  the  fees  mentioned  in  subdivision  (b)  of 
section  two  of  this  act. 

SEC.  7.  On  and  after  March  1,  1916,  all  rentals  received 
on  account  of  that  certain  lease  of  the  former  university  site 
in  the  city  of  Seattle,  known  as  the  "Old  University  Grounds," 
made  and  entered  into  on  the  first  day  of  February,  1907,  by 


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and  between  the  State  of  Washington,  lessor,  and  James  A. 
Moore,  lessee,  and  thereafter  assigned  by  said  lessee  to  the 
Metropolitan  Building  Company,  a  corporation,  shall  be  paid 
into  and  credited  to  said  "University  of  Washington  Building 
Fund,"  to  be  used  exclusively  for  the  purposes  mentioned  in  sec- 
tion three  of  this  act. 

SEC.  8.  This  act  shall  not  apply  to  or  affect  any  student 
fee  or  charge  which  the  students  voluntarily  maintain  upon 
themselves  for  student  purposes  only. 

SEC.  9.  There  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any  moneys 
in  the  general  fund  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
dollars  ($150,000.00)  to  be  used  in  the  construction  of  a  class 
"A"  building  for  the  University  of  Washington  and  for  furnish- 
ing and  equipment  therefor. 

SEC.  10.  There  is  hereby  appropriated  from  the  said  "Uni- 
versity of  Washington  Building  Fund"  the  sum  of  one  hundred 
fifty  thousand  dollars  ($150,000.00),  or  so  much  thereof  as 
may  be  necessary,  for  the  erection,  equipment  and  furnishing 
of  one  class  "A"  building  upon  the  campus  for  the  use  of  the 
University  of  Washington.  Said  building  to  be  built  by  and 
under  the  supervision  of  the  board  of  regents  of  the  university. 

SEC.  11.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  in  any  way  in  conflict 
with  this  act  be  and  the  same  are  hereby  repealed. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  1,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  8,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  15,  1915. 


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CHAPTER  71. 

[S.  B.  235.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  common  schools  and  amending  section  4482  of  Rem- 
ington &  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4482  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's 
Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington  be  amended  to 
read  as  follows : 

Section  4482.  Every  board  of  directors  of  the  several  school 
districts  of  this  state  shall  procure  a  United  States  flag,  and 
shall  display  said  flag  upon  or  near  each  public  school  build- 
ing during  school  hours,  except  in  unsuitable  weather,  and  at 
such  other  times  as  to  said  board  may  seem  proper,  and  shall 
cause  appropriate  flag  exercises  to  be  held  in  every  school  at 
least  once  in  each  week  at  which  exercises  the  pupils  shall  recite 
the  following  salute  to  the  flag:  "I  pledge  allegiance  to  my 
flag  and  to  the  republic  for  which  it  stands.  One  nation  in- 
divisible with  liberty  and  justice  to  all." 

Passed  the  Senate  February  26,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  10,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  15,  1915. 

This  act  amends  Section  164  of  the  Code  of  Public  Instruction. 
Provides  that  flag  salute  must  be  given  once  each  week. 


CHAPTER  74. 

[S.  B.  374.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  and  requiring  that  all  warrants  for  the  payment  of 
claims  against  diking,  ditch,  drainage  and  irrigation  districts  and 
school  districts  of  the  second  and  third  class  shall  be  issued  by  the 
county  auditor  of  the  county  wherein  such  district  is  located. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  All  warrants  for  the  payment  of  claims  against 
diking,  ditch,  drainage  and  irrigation  districts  and  school  dis- 
tricts of  the  second  and  third  class  shall  be  drawn  and  issued 


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by  the  county  auditor  of  the  county  wherein  such  district  is 
located,  upon  vouchers  properly  approved  by  the  respective 
commissioners,  trustees  or  directors  of  such  district. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  5,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  9,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  15,  1915. 


CHAPTER  116. 

[H.  B.  85.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  school  houses  and  school  sites  in  school  districts  of 
the  second  class  and  amending  section  4522  of  Remington  &  Bal- 
linger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4522  of  Rem.  &  Bal.  Code  be 
amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  4522.  The  board  shall  build  or  remove  school 
houses,  purchase  or  sell  lots  or  other  real  estate  when  directed 
by  a  vote  of  the  district  to  do  so  and  where  the  district  shall 
possess  a  school  house  upon  a  site  owned  by  such  district  the 
board  may  by  a  unanimous  vote  of  all  the  members  thereof 
purchase  or  lease  additional  real  estate  adjacent  to  such  site: 
Provided,  That  a  school  house  already  built  on  a  site  which  has 
been  selected  by  a  majority  vote  of  the  legal  school  electors 
of  a  district  shall  not  be  removed  to  a  new  site  without  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  the  school  electors  voting  at  an  annual  or  special 
election;  nor  shall  a  school  house  site  that  has  been  selected 
by  a  majority  vote  of  the  legal  school  electors,  but  upon  which 
no  school  house  has  been  built,  be  changed  except  by  a  two- 
thirds  vote  of  the  legal  school  electors  voting  at  an  annual 
or  special  election  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

Passed  the  House  February  16,  1915. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  9,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  17,  1915. 


This  act  amends  Section  204  of  the  Code  of  Public  Instruction. 


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CHAPTER  117. 

[H.  B.   25.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  school  elections  and  amending  section  4657  of  Rem- 
ington &  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4657  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's 
Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington  be  and  hereby 
is  amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  4657.  The  election  of  school  district  directors  shall, 
except  as  otherwise  provided  by  law,  be  held  on  the  first  Satur- 
day in  March  of  each  year,  at  the  district  school  house,  if  there 
be  one,  or  if  there  be  none,  or  more  than  one,  then  at  a  place 
to  be  designated  by  the  board  of  directors :  Provided,  That 
if  a  petition  signed  by  not  less  than  twenty-five  per  cent,  of 
the  legal  voters  in  any  district  asking  that  the  date  of  the 
next  annual  election  therein  be  changed,  shall  be  filed  with  the 
county  superintendent  of  schools  not  less  than  twenty  days 
before  such  election,  said  superintendent  shall  fix  a  date  within 
the  first  seven  days  of  March,  other  than  a  Saturday,  for  the 
holding  of  such  election  and  forthwith  notify  the  clerk  thereof 
and  such  election  shall  then  be  held  upon  the  date  so  fixed 
in  the  manner  and  upon  the  notice  that  other  like  elections  are 
held.  Special  school  elections  shall  be  called  and  conducted  in 
the  manner  provided  for  calling  and  conducting  annual  elections. 

Passed  the  House  March  8,  1915. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  10,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  17,  1915. 

This  act  amends  Section  338  of  the  Code  of  Public  Instruction. 


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CHAPTER  125. 

[H.  B.   70.] 

AN  ACT  authorizing  and  empowering  the  board  of  regents  of  the  State 
College  of  Washington  to  receive  and  expend  the  monies  appro- 
priated by  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  under  an  act  entitled 
"An  act  to  provide  for  cooperative  agricultural  extension  work  be- 
tween the  agricultural  colleges  in  the  several  states  receiving  the 
benefits  of  the  act  of  Congress  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  of  acts 
supplemental  thereto,  and  the  United  States  Department  of  Agri- 
culture," approved  May  8,  1914,  and  making  an  appropriation  for 
the  purpose  of  complying  with  the  terms  of  said  act  of  Congress. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  The  board  of  regents  of  the  State  College  of 
Washington  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  receive  and 
expend  the  monies  appropriated  under  the  act  of  Congress  ap- 
proved May  8,  1914,  and  entitled  "An  act  to  provide  for  co- 
operative agricultural  extension  work  between  the  agricultural 
colleges  in  the  several  states  receiving  the  benefits  of  the  act  of 
Congress  approved  July  2,  1862,  and  of  acts  supplemental 
thereto,  and  the  United  States  Department  of  Agriculture," 
and  to  organize  and  conduct  agricultural  extension  work  in 
connection  with  the  State  College  of  Washington  in  accordance 
with  the  terms  and  conditions  expressed  in  said  act  of  Congress. 

SEC.  2.  For  the  purpose  of  complying  with  the  conditions 
expressed  in  said  act  of  Congress  approved  May  8,  1914,  there 
is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  the  general  fund  the  sum  of 
eighteen  thousand  four  hundred  eighty-one  dollars. 

Passed  the  House  March  6,  1915. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  9,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  17,  1915. 


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CHAPTER  130. 

[S.  H.  B.  111.] 

AN  ACT  making  counties,  cities,  towns,  school  districts  and  other  mu- 
nicipal corporations  subject  to  garnishment. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  Counties,  cities,  towns,  school  districts  and 
other  municipal  corporations  shall  be  subject  to  garnishment 
in  the  superior  and  justice  courts,  but  only  after  judgment  shall 
have  been  entered  against  the  defendant  in  the  main  action. 

SEC.  2.  No  regular  judgment  in  garnishment  shall  be 
entered  against  any  municipal  corporation,  but  the  judge  of  the 
superior  court,  or  justice  of  the  peace  shall  by  written  order 
command  the  auditing  officer,  or  body  of  such  municipal  cor- 
poration to  audit  and  pay  to  the  judgment  creditor  the  amount 
due  from  the  garnishee  to  the  principal  defendant,  not  exceed- 
ing the  amount  of  the  judgment  in  the  main  action,  whereupon 
the  same  shall  be  paid  by  the  garnishee,  provided,  nothing  in 
this  act  shall  be  construed  to  impair  the  rights  of  defendants 
to  claim  exemptions  of  wages  as  provided  by  law. 

Passed  the  House  March  1,  1915. 
Passed  the  Senate  March  9,  1915. 
Approved  by  the  Governor  March  17,  1915. 


CHAPTER  143. 

[S.  B.  405.] 

AN  ACT  creating  a  commission  to  make  an  educational  survey,  denning 
its  powers  and  duties,  appointing  the  members  thereof  and  making 
an  appropriation  therefor. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  There  is  hereby  created  a  commission  consist- 
ing of  six  members  to  be  known  as  "The  Commission  of  Educa- 
tional Survey  of  Washington,"  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 


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commission  to  make  a  comprehensive  survey  of  the  organization 
and  work  of  the  University  of  Washington,  the  State  College  of 
Washington  and  the  State  Normal  Schools  at  Ellensburg, 
Cheney  and  Bellingham,  and  a  general  survey  of  the  public 
system  of  the  state,  both  urban  and  rural,  elementary  and 
secondary,  and  of  the  educational  development  and  possibilities 
of  the  state,  and  to  determine  more  definitely  the  purpose,  sphere 
and  functions  of  the  University,  the  State  College  and  the  State 
Normal  Schools,  and  the  lines  along  which  each  should  be  en- 
couraged to  develop  for  the  better  service  of  the  state.  In  the 
performance  of  its  duties,  said  commission  shall  have  power 
to  employ  experts  and  to  fix  and  authorize  the  payment  of  their 
compensation.  Upon  the  completion  of  such  survey  and  on  or 
before  April  30,  1916,  said  commission  shall  make  and  file  with 
the  governor  a  report  of  its  findings  and  recommendations,  which 
report  shall  be  published  for  general  distribution  throughout  the 
state,  and  shall  contain  such  recommendations  to  the  legislature 
in  regard  to  the  enactment  or  amendment  of  the  statutes  re- 
lating to  the  several  institutions  as  may  be  found  advisable,  in- 
cluding any  necessary  changes  in  the  distribution  of  the  millage 
tax  for  the  support  of  such  institutions  and  such  additional 
appropriations  as  the  commission  may  deem  advisable. 

SEC.  2.  The  members  of  the  sub-committee  of  the  joint 
committee  on  Educational  Institutions  and  Education  of  the 
14th  legislature,  to-wit:  Senators  W.  J.  Sutton,  E.  E.  Boner, 
and  A.  H.  Imus,  and  Representatives  Tom  Brown,  Charles  Tim- 
blin,  and  Victor  Zednick,  are  hereby  appointed  members  of  said 
commission,  who  shall  receive  as  compensation  five  dollars 
($5.00)  for  each  day  while  actually  engaged  in  the  performance 
of  their  duties. 

SEC.  3.  For  the  payment  of  the  actual  and  necessary  travel- 
ing expenses  of  the  members  of  the  said  commission,  the  com- 
pensation of  the  members  of  said  commission  and  the  experts 
employed,  and  expenses  incidental  to  the  work  of  said  com- 
mission, there  is  hereby  appropriated  out  of  any  funds  in  the 
state  treasury  not  otherwise  appropriated,  the  sum  of  five 


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thousand  dollars   ($5,000.00),  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  9,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  9,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  18,  1915. 


CHAPTER  161. 

[S.  B.  395.] 

Ax  ACT  relating  to  accrediting  of  institutions. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  The  state  board  of  education  shall  investigate 
the  character  of  the  work  required  to  be  performed  as  a  condi- 
tion of  entrance  to  and  graduation  from  normal  schools,  col- 
leges, universities  and  other  institutions  of  higher  education 
and  to  prepare  an  accredited  list  of  those  higher  institutions  of 
learning  of  this  and  other  states  whose  graduates  may  be 
awarded  teachers'  certificates  by  the  superintendent  of  public 
instruction  without  examination  except  upon  the  state  manual 
of  Washington:  Provided,  That  graduates  of  accredited  col- 
leges and  universities  must  present  evidence  that  they  have  com- 
pleted satisfactorily  twelve  semester  hours  in  professional  study 
in  an  accredited  institution  or  else  pass  examination  in  such 
professional  subj  ects  as  the  state  board  of  education  may  direct : 
And  provided  further,  That  the  entrance  and  graduation  re- 
quirements of  all  colleges  and  universities  whose  diplomas  are 
accredited  must  be  equal  to  those  of  the  University  of  Washing- 
ton ;  and  the  requirements  for  normal  schools  shall  be  equal  to 
the  advanced  courses  of  the  state  normal  schools  of  this  state. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  6,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  10,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  18,  1915. 

This  act  supersedes  paragraph  third,   Section  11  of  the  Code  of  Public  In- 
struction. 


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CHAPTER  162. 

[S.  B.  350.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  teachers'  examinations  and  amending  sections  4641 
and  4642  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes 
of  Washington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4641  of  Remington  &  Bal- 
linger's Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington  be 
amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Section  4641.  An  examination  for  the  certification  of 
teachers  of  the  State  of  Washington  for  third,  second,  first 
grade  primary  and  first  grade  certificates  shall  be  held  at  the 
county  seat  of  each  county  by  the  county  superintendent  in 
accordance  with  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  state  board  of 
education,  on  the  first  Thursday  of  August,  November,  and 
March  and  the  Friday  and  Saturday  next  following;  and  for 
professional  and  life  certificates  on  the  above  named  days  of 
August  and  March  only. 

SEC.  2.  That  section  4642  of  Remington  &  Ballinger's 
Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Washington  be  amended  to 
read  as  follows : 

Section  4642.  The  county  superintendent  shall  within  three 
days  following  the  close  of  the  examinations  provided  for  in 
section  1  of  this  article,  transmit  to  the  state  superintendent 
of  public  instruction  all  papers  written  at  such  examination, 
together  with  such  other  reports  as  shall  by  him  be  required 
The  superintendent  of  public  instruction  shall  keep  all  manu- 
scripts on  file  for  a  period  of  at  least  sixty  (60)  days  from  the 
date  of  the  examinations. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  2,  1915. 

Passed  the  House  March  10,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  18,  1915. 

This  act  amends  Section  322  and  323  of  the  Code  of  Public   Instruction. 


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CHAPTER  182. 

[H.  B.  78.] 

AN  ACT  relating  to  consolidated  school  districts,  the  election,  powers 
and  duties  of  directors  thereof,  the  acquisition  and  disposition  of 
property  thereof,  and  amending  sections  4440,  4444,  and  4447  of 
Remington  &  Ballinger's  Annotated  Codes  and  Statutes  of  Wash- 
ington. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  of  Washington: 

SECTION  1.  That  section  4440  of  Rem.  &  Bal.  Code  be 
amended  to  read  as  follows : 

Upon  receipt  of  a  petition  signed  by  five  heads  of  families 
requesting  the  consolidation  of  two  or  more  adjoining  districts 
in  the  same  county,  the  county  superintendent  shall  call  a  special 
election  of  the  voters  of  such  school  districts  at  some  convenient 
place,  by  posting  written  or  printed  notices  in  like  manner  as 
is  provided  for  calling  annual  school  district  elections,  and  said 
notices  shall  state  the  object  for  which  the  election  is  called. 

If  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  each  district  shall  vote  to  con- 
solidate, the  clerk  of  each  district  so  proposing  to  con- 
solidate, shall  within  ten  days  after  the  election  notify  the 
county  superintendent  of  the  holding  of  and  the  result  of  the 
election  and  the  county  superintendent  shall,  immediately  after 
receipt  of  said  notice  organize  and  establish  a  consolidated 
school  district  and  when  such  consolidated  district  shall  have 
been  established  no  new  district  shall  be  established  out  of  any 
portion  thereof,  or  any  portion  thereof  changed  to  another 
district  within  five  years  from  such  consolidation. 

SEC.  2.  That  section  4444  of  Rem.  &  Bal.  Code  be  amended 
to  read  as  follows : 

Section  4444.  The  county  superintendent  of  any  county 
in  which  new  districts  are  formed  by  the  uniting  of  ten  or  more 
districts,  or  by  the  incorporating  of  any  city  or  town  lying 
partly  in  two  or  more  school  districts,  shall  upon  being  notified 
of  such  action  by  the  board  of  directors  of  such  new  district, 
proceed  to  designate  such  new  district  by  a  number  not  the 


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same  as  that  of  either  component  district  or  of  any  existing 
district,  and  to  make  a  record  of  the  boundaries  thereof,  and  he 
shall  certify  such  facts  to  the  board  of  county  commissioners,  to 
the  county  treasurer,  and  to  the  clerk  of  the  new  district  formed. 
The  county  superintendent  shall  also  divide  such  consolidated 
district  into  three  directors'  districts  which  shall  each  comprise 
as  nearly  as  possible  one-third  of  the  population  of  the  con- 
solidated district,  and  thereafter  one  director  shall  be  elected 
from  among  the  qualified  electors  of  each  such  directors'  dis- 
trict by  the  qualified  electors  of  the  consolidated  district. 

SEC.  3.  That  section  4447  of  Rem.  &  Bal.  Code  be  amended 
to  read  as  follows  : 

Section  4447.  When  two  or  more  school  districts  shall  be 
united  by  the  provisions  of  this  act,  the  board  of  directors  of 
the  several  districts  shall,  within  thirty  days  thereafter,  meet 
and  organize  the  new  board  by  the  election  of  one  of  their  num- 
ber as  president  of  the  board.  The  board  shall  elect  a  clerk 
for  said  district,  and  the  clerks  of  the  several  districts  so  united 
shall  deliver  to  said  clerk  all  books,  papers  and  records  belong- 
ing to  their  respective  offices.  The  board  may  in  its  discretion 
require  the  superintendent,  if  there  be  one,  of  such  consolidated 
district  to  act  as  clerk.  The  clerk  of  the  new  district  thus 
formed  shall  immediately  notify  the  county  superintendent  of 
the  organization  of  the  board  of  the  new  district. 

Passed  the  House  March  1,  1915. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  9,  1915. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  March  19,  1915. 

This  act  amends  Sections  121,  125,  and  128  of  the  Code  of  Public  In- 
struction. 

SEC.  1.  This  act  requires  a  special  election  to  form  a  consolidated  district. 
After  being  formed,  it  cannot  be  changed  for  5  years. 

SEC.  2.  When  a  town  which  lies  partly  within  two  or  more  districts  incor- 
porates, or  when  10  or  more  districts  are  consolidated,  the  county  superintendent 
must  divide  the  new  districts  into  three  equally  populated  parts,  each  part  to 
be  a  "director's  district."  One  director  is  to  be  elected  from  each  part  by  the 
electors  of  the  whole  consolidated  district. 

SEC.  3.  The  school  board  of  the  consolidated  district  may  require  the 
Superintendent  of  the  district  to  act  as  clerk. 

ERRATA. 

In  the  fourth  line  of  Sec.  2,  page  20,  ten  should  read  two. 
In  Sec.  2  of  explanatory  note,  page  21,  10  should  read  2. 


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SENATE  JOINT  RESOLUTION  NO.  15. 

WHEREAS,  it  appears  that  the  public  school  system  is  one 
of  the  most  important  departments  of  government,  and 

WHEREAS,  it  appears  that  the  cost  of  the  public  schools  ex- 
ceeds one-third  of  all  the  revenues  raised  by  taxation  m  the 
state  of  Washington,  and 

WHEREAS,  it  further  appears  that  the  cost  of  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  public  school  system  has  increased 
fifty  per  cent.  (50%)  in  the  last  five  (5)  years,  while  the  daily 
attendance  has  only  increased  fifteen  per  cent.  (15%),  and 

WHEREAS,  it  appears  by  the  last  biennial  report  of  the  state 
superintendent  of  public  instruction  that  the  basis  of  appor- 
tionment of  the  state  current  school  fund  and  the  county  school 
fund  is  in  need  of  radical  readjustment  on  the  basis  of  actual 
attendance  instead  of  on  the  present  basis. 

Now  Therefore,  Be  It  Resolved,  by  the  legislature  of 
the  State  of  Washington,  that  a  state  commission  on  the 
financial  management  of  public  schools  is  hereby  created,  whose 
duty  it  shall  be  to  examine  into  the  methods  for  the  business 
management  of  the  public  schools ;  to  inquire  into  and  devise 
ways  and  means  for  raising  revenues  for  the  support  of  the  pub- 
lic schools ;  to  devise  an  economical,  efficient  and  comprehensive 
system  of  school  districts ;  to  recodify,  rearrange  and  bring 
into  harmony  all  laws  and  parts  of  laws  pertaining  to  the  finan- 
cial management  and  business  adjustment  of  the  public  school 
system  of  the  state  of  Washington ;  to  suggest  such  amendments 
to  existing  laws  as  it  may  deem  proper  for  the  best  interests  of 
the  educational  system  of  this  state,  and  for  this  purpose  it 
may  conduct  hearings  and  assemble  data  in  different  parts  of 
the  state. 

Be  It  Further  Resolved,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
commission  to  make  a  careful  study  of  the  distribution 
of  the  state  current  school  fund  and  the  county  school  funds 
for  the  purpose  of  presenting  to  the  next  session  of  the  legis- 
lature a  proper  solution  of  the  apportionment  problem. 


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Be  It  Resolved,  Further,  that  such  commission  shall  con- 
sist of  five  (5)  members,  one  member  to  be  appointed 
by  the  president  of  the  Senate  from  among  the  members  thereof ; 
one  member  to  be  appointed  by  the  speaker  of  the  House  from 
among  the  members  thereof;  the  superintendent  of  public  in- 
struction; one  member  to  be  appointed  by  the  state  auditor 
from  the  bureau  of  inspection  and  supervision  of  public  offices, 
and  one  member  who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  attorney  general 
and  who  shall  also  serve  as  legal  advisor  of  the  commission.  All 
members  of  the  commission  shall  serve  without  compensation. 

Be  It  Resolved,  Further,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
commission  to  meet  in  the  office  of  the  superintendent  of 
public  instruction  immediately  after  the  adjournment  of  the 
legislature  and  make  preliminary  arrangements  for  performing 
its  duties  and  it  shall  have  power  to  meet  at  such  other  times 
and  places  as  it  shall  deem  necessary  to  carry  out  the  purposes 
of  this  resolution,  and 

Be  it  Further  Resolved,  that  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  such 
commission  to  draft  its  conclusions  in  the  form  of  a  bill 
to  be  submitted  to  the  members  elect  of  the  state  legislature 
of  1917  on  or  before  December  first,  1916,  together  with  a  re- 
port of  the  facts  and  conditions  of  the  financial  management 
of  the  public  school  system  as  revealed  by  the  investigations  of 
the  commission. 

Passed  the  Senate  March  5,  1915. 
Passed  the  House  March  6,  1915. 


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